Join this Seed-Saving workshop taught by a pair of visiting Master Gardeners! in this workshop, you’ll learn how to save seeds from your garden and discover the value of building your own heirloom seed library! REGISTER HERE
Knowledge in environmentally-situated AR with Francesca Albrezzi (UCLA OARC). Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series. As a point of departure, we will focus on the Biophilia Treehouse, Counterforce’s flagship project, a public art living sculpture, and an offering to birds. Join us to explore how...
The EV charging industry is poised to evolve rapidly in the upcoming decade, especially given the recent $5B investment in the NEVI Program following funding as part of Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. However, as EV charging technology scales, issues of system downtime have provoked increasing concern. This event focuses on centering discussion around...
Join State water leaders as they share an update on the status of drought and water supply after the recent set of fierce winter storms. How has our water supply improved? What are we doing to capture large volumes of snowmelt this spring? How are fish and wildlife faring? When will the drought be over?...
Attendance is free and open to all UCLA students. Free vegan snacks (ft. GOMacro & Lesser Evil) & a sustainable items giveaway The screening is hosted by Sustainagoals, the committee within USAC’s Facilities Commission advancing sustainability on the hill and campus.
Methane accounts for around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, behind only carbon dioxide. As methane is both more potent and shorter-lived than carbon dioxide, near-term efforts to reduce emissions of methane could slow the increase in global temperature in the next few decades. Rebecca Leber (Vox) will moderate a conversation between Fiji George (Cheniere...
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is an environmental justice organization with deep roots in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. Since 1993, APEN has built a membership base of Laotian refugees in Richmond and Chinese immigrants in Oakland. Together, they’ve fought and won campaigns to make our communities healthier, just places where people can thrive....
This talk presents a view of the Salton Sea and its surrounding Sonoran Desert ecosystem that destabilizes hegemonic, settler colonial perspectives on the sea and the desert, exploring the ways that different kinds of human communities have encountered and made meaning out of this complex place. Ultimately, this story of sea, desert, and people is...
Kaleb Goff, PhD Student, North Carolina State University and 2022 WMRC Mini Grant recipient Kaleb will discuss findings that demonstrate climate change’s affects on plant diversity and functionality within the xeric alpine ecosystems of the White Mountains, California. His work is also in collaboration with GLORIA Great Basin, which has been monitoring plant communities in...
REGISTER HERE Cynthia Babich Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee Cynthia Babich serves as the Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee. The DAAC is a grassroots community-based environmental justice organization concerned about DDT contamination and related health problems in the unincorporated Los Angeles Harbor Gateway neighborhood. The Del Amo area includes...